Is the European Union (EU) Redundant?

Is the European Union (EU) redundant?

I voted to remain in the Common Market (EEC)
in the United Kingdom European Communities Referendum of 1975. My
understanding was that the reason for being in the EEC was to promote
trade with other European countries. Since then we have lost our
control as a sovereign nation: in law, in control of our borders and in
financial control and our fishing industry has been almost destroyed.
We are forced to pay £55 million pounds a day gross. Why does
this money have to be paid? Back in 1975 although we paid just
over £2 billion we got back the same amount. Moving on to 2016 the
balance we are paying is £8.6 billion pounds. That is after calculations
to incorporate about £5 billion paid back to the UK. (UK payment to EU
budget) We are paying more and more for what?

A substantial amount of the payments that we
make and other European countries make is to pay for the bureaucratic
costs of administering the EU. The introduction of the Euro in 2002 was
the beginning and the end of the freedom of European nations to manage
their own economy wasn’t it? My understanding of economics is that if a
country has problems they can devalue their currency. If the
country is in the EU they can not. We could still do so if necessary as
we never agreed to the Euro replacing the pound.

What I would like to know is why do countries
think that they need to belong to this organisation? Do they, and
do we really need the EU? The reality is that every single country
in the EU has its own government and does not need to submit to some
undemocratic organisation that is moving towards becoming a super state.
Its daft, very few countries even speak the same language and that
leads to a lot of money being spent to accommodate these languages.
The rest of the world manages to get on with their own languages when
trading.

If the EU were to be destroyed overnight
every European country would still have its own government. Europe does
not need the EU as a trading organisation it is redundant.
Published in 2008: the EU system on average requires over 2000
translators and 800 interpreters a day. Multilingualism expenditure
represents over one third of the total expenditure of the European
Parliament (EP). Since 2005 the EP has translated over a million pages a
year. Source: “European Parliament-Never Lost in Translation”. The
rest of the World and other European countries that are not members of
the EU only translate as needed for trade. Not the EU. It is probable
the only reason why these politicians support the EU is they get a
significant increase in their earnings from being in the EU.

Yours Sincerely,

A. Citizen

The Prime Minister's office has referred my letter to the Department for
Exiting the European Union for consideration.